Preoccupied for months by the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Pope on Wednesday shuffled the Vatican bureaucracy before heading off on vacation.

An Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.
The Reverend Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said on Friday the free application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin.

A crowd estimated by the Vatican at 150,000 filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in a major show of support for Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse scandal.

May 3: The Vatican’s decision to assume leadership of the scandal-plagued Legi-onaries of Christ won acceptance on Sunday from the order itself and praise from those who abandoned the conservative mov